• Check in, centering, balanced hatha yoga set considering contraindications, relaxation (with imagery as appropriate),
• Balanced pranayama considering contraindications, meditation/centering.
• Include at least one suggestion from Karma, Bhakti, Raja, or Jnana Yoga tailored for this client.

1. Watch your thoughts, maybe write about it. Caught yourself if you're thinking negatively about yourself or others (swadhyaya or Self-study).
2. Practice Dr Loren Fishman's sequence.

Spread love and light!

Check-in with the clients
Yoga Philosophy:
Attachment to the senses creates the illusion of what we see.
Trust your inner wisdom, your gut, your intuition.
“Bondage is due to the connection of our consciousness, or the soul, we may say, with the report of the senses, which is confirmed by the activity of the mind and the intellect.”

Today we will be in tune with our 3rd eye chakra or Ajna.
Element: Light or thought
Purpose: Pattern recognition
Issues: intuition, imagination, visualization, insight.
Location: forehead, point between the eyebrows
Demon: illusion
Ajna, the command center. The pictures you hold in your mind do command your reality.
Thinking and imagining are so closely knit together that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between them.
CENTERING
In a sitting posture, observe sensations in your body, and observe your breath.
ASANAS(respect your body)
Warm-up - neck and shoulders
Dr Loren Fishman’s sequence - 12 asanas
Progressive Relaxation and deep relaxation with guided imagery (Julie Lusk, Yoga meditations)
MEDITATION (on the chakra with mantra OM)
CLOSING

“We have notions about things based entirely on sense-perception, not on the intuitional insight into the background of the occurrence of events. What do the senses tell us? They can report exactly what they can abstract concretely in the form of bodies of perception from the vast reservoir of information. The reservoir, as a background, is unperceivable to the eyes, not even cognisable to the ordinary mind. But the meditation proposes to introduce a technique of envisaging the whole universe as responsible for the manifestation of everything, so that everything is all things, and anything is everywhere. There is no such thing as a particular individual or a particular body. This is the meditation which frees us from the bondage of attachment to particular things. If this meditation could be conducted effectively throughout one’s life, there would be a universal perception of everything. When you look at any particular object you will see the whole world in it, and not merely one person in front. There is no such thing as one person; that does not exist. The description of the causes with their effects, in these passages of the Upanishad, is therefore intended to take us above the level of ordinary sense-prerception and open the gate of a new knowledge altogether, behind the visible effects which are the so-called objects of sensation, perception and cognition. Bondage is due to the connection of our consciousness, or the soul, we may say, with the report of the senses, which is confirmed by the activity of the mind and the intellect.”
THE CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD
SWAMI KRISHNANANDA The Divine Life Society Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India Website: www.swami-krishnananda.org (Page 42).

Ro and JD said that emotions interfere in their practice and it’s easy to have negative self-talk. Ro remembered what I said about observing the body when you are in the posture. She felt tense in the twist and thought “Relax!”, so she felt better. Ci was very dispersed during savasana, she didn’t stay long in a supine position because of pregnancy discomfort.
Ro used the sound of a tractor as an OM sound.

I like to talk about attachment. It is one of the greater obstacles to our Self-realization. I myself have to be less attached to the outcome of my clients' practices.

Check-in with the clients
Yoga Philosophy:
Raga is one of the most difficult causes of suffering to weaken and overcome. It contains in it the fear of not experiencing something again.
Raga can mean “coloring” because an experience can leave a stain on our psyche.
Raga is connected to dvesa, which is aversion. Practicing the tools of Kriya yoga of Patanjali weakens raga and dvesa.
Habitual patterns of behavior (samskaras) are formed by raga more than any other klesha.
Tools of KY: tapas, swadhyaya and swara pranidana. Transformation practice, self-observation and faith.

Today we will be in tune with our crown chakra or Sahasrara.
Element: -
Purpose: understanding
Issues: belief system, divinity, union
Location: cerebral cortex
Demon: attachment
CENTERING
In a sitting posture, observe sensations in your body, and observe your breath.
ASANAS(respect your body)
Warm-up - neck and shoulders
Dr Loren Fishman’s sequence - 12 asanas
Progressive Relaxation and deep relaxation (SMTT manual p186).
Pranayama: dirgha swasan
MEDITATION : Witness practice script, Jnani Chapman.
CLOSING